Full sun to light shade; regular water; Zones Witch Hazel.

Insert a container-grown or balled-and-burlapped tree in late fall or early spring or a bare-root tree in early spring only. It’s also possible to grow these trees for fall foliage from an acorn that has just turned brown. Put your tree in full sun and moist, fertile, acidic soil.

Keep the soil medium-moist to wet, and fertilize shrubmulching.barted Reading Time: 7 mins. Nov 14, One of the most obvious changes to occur in the fall, of course, is that the leaves of deciduous trees change color. For the trees, the purpose of this process is to retrieve nutrients from the leaves before they fall to the ground. For people, it’s big business, with foliage-related tourism worth billions of dollars in New England alone.